They were subsequently handed checks with values ranging from $6,000 to $6,500, but vowed to press ahead with their case. The group suffered a setback on Wednesday when Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Allen White ruled in favor of CBS on the fraud claim.

The case will now proceed only with a breach of contract suit and the actors cannot receive punitive damages at the 2012 trial, according to CNN.

The group's lawyer, Jon Pfeiffer, says, "We intend to press forward with the lawsuit. If we can't punish the defendants, we certainly intend to expose their practices."

The series ran between 1974 and 1984.

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